Lars Teichmann
WORKS
Lars Teichmann | flowers 9 | 2021 | 125 x 95 cm
Lars Teichmann | Red Portrait 04 | 2023 | 40 x 30 cm
Lars Teichmann | fruits and vase | 2021 | 60 x 70 cm
Lars Teichmann | Big Classic Stilllife I | 2020 | 200 x 160 cm
Lars Teichmann | vases and fruits 4 | 2021 | 200 x 270 cm
Lars Teichmann | modern fruitbowl green 1 | 2025 | 140 x 180 cm
Lars Teichmann | Little Ludwig | 2020 | 95 x 70 cm
Lars Teichmann | candy table | 2022 | 240 x 200 cm
Lars Teichmann | stilllife with fruitbowl and jug | 2021 | 140 x 100 cm
Lars Teichmann | couple 1 | 2023 | 160 x 200 cm
ARTIST INFO
Lars Teichmann
Lars Teichmann (born 1980 in Burgstädt, Germany) studied Fine Arts and Painting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2002 to 2008. Among his most influential professors were Wolfgang Petrick, Daniel Richter, and Valerie Favre. In 2006, he was appointed a master student of Valerie Favre and completed his studies in 2008 with the distinction of Meisterschüler.
Teichmann’s painting engages in a multifaceted exploration of art-historical visual memory. At the heart of his artistic practice lies painting itself, which he approaches as a self-reflexive medium in which historical traditions and contemporary image-making enter into dialogue. Historical paintings and the visual conventions of past eras serve as the starting point for his investigations. His works draw on historical pictorial traditions and aesthetic references rooted particularly in the Baroque period and various movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Neoclassicism, Japonism, and Salon painting. From these sources, he creates visual worlds that oscillate between familiarity and disorientation. References to historical models may remain recognizable, yet they are transformed, recontextualized, and translated into a distinctive painterly language of their own. Art history thus serves not merely as a reservoir of motifs, but becomes the very subject of a contemporary painterly inquiry.
Through this process of artistic appropriation and transformation, Teichmann translates historical imagery into an independent visual language. He draws on characteristic compositional structures while reducing the original color palettes and dissolving specific pictorial details in favor of an expressive, gestural approach to painting. The application of paint, the movement of the brush, and the material qualities of the medium increasingly assert their autonomy, becoming central vehicles of expression in their own right. Historical source material is thereby subjected to a painterly reinterpretation in which the familiar is rendered strange and brought into a contemporary artistic context.
This approach is particularly evident in his depictions of the human figure. Facial features are largely dissolved and replaced by pale, sometimes blurred or bleeding applications of color. Individual facial identities become indistinct, while the figures acquire a peculiar physical presence through the forceful, gestural application of paint. Emerging from the tension between figuration and abstraction are images that oscillate between appearance and dissolution, familiarity and estrangement. At times, the figures seem distant and ghostlike, yet they simultaneously command an intense visual presence.
Teichmann’s painting thus occupies a space between art-historical memory and a contemporary reexamination of the medium itself. By activating the viewer’s collective visual memory, his work challenges established ways of seeing through painterly distortion and transformation.
His works are now held in prominent public and private collections, including the Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture; the Luciano Benetton Collection in Trieste; the Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt; and the Kunstpalais Erlangen. Their presence in these collections attests to the institutional recognition of his artistic practice and its reception beyond Germany.
by Michelle Hoffmann (B.A. in Art History)
BIOGRAPHY
1980
born in Burgstädt
2002–2008
Studied Fine Arts/Painting at the Berlin University of the Arts under Wolfgang Petrick, Daniel Richter, and Valerie Favre
2006
Master’s student of Valerie Favre, Berlin University of the Arts
Nominated for the Vattenfall Art Award (Emerging Painter)
2008
Completed the “Meisterschüler” program at the Berlin University of the Arts
2009
Under 30 Euromobil Award, Arte Fiera, Bologna
2010
Berlin Senate Scholarship for the Visual Arts
2024
Artist residency at Camman Studios, Chemnitz, European Capital of Culture 2025
EXHIBITIONS
SOLOEXHIBITIONS
2020er
2026 „behind the pines“ Galerie Stefanie Boos, Heidelberg
2026 „Brides & Popes“, Brennecke Fine Art, Berlin
2026 „the most important things“, Framed #92, Berlin
2026 „spell the colours“ Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2026 „super classic“ Schloß Mochental, Galerie Schrade, Ehingen
2026 „Yachtclub“, Artes Galerie, Berlin
2026 „DUALIS“ mit Olivia Berkemeyer, Galerie Tobias Schrade, Ulm
2026 „Fragile Manipulationen“ Gerhardt Braun Gallery Palma, Spain
2025 „siglo de oro“ , Gerhardt Braun Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2025 „societe noblesse“, Kunstverein Schwetzingen
2024 „disrupted portraits“, Brennecke Fine Art, Berlin
2024 „modern beauties of the past“, Galerie Stefanie Boos, Heidelberg
2024 „Die Zehn Kapitel der Malerei“,Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2023 „Neue bilder“ Galerie Peters Barenbrock, Ahrenshoop
2023 „en miroir“ Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2023 „retrievals of classics“, Galerie Braun-Falco, München
2022 „Portraits and other Stories“, Brennecke Fine Art, Berlin
2022 „Vanitas Opulenz“, Galerie Kunst2 – Stefanie Boos, Heidelberg
2022 „Jardin Japonais“, Galerie Lachenmann Art, Konstanz
2021 „Sensitive Subjects“, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2021 „Die besten Bilder dieser Tage“, Kunsthandel Hubertus Hoffschild, Lübeck
2020 „Total Museum“, Galerie Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt/Main
2020 „Blaues Blut“, Galerie Kunst2, Heidelberg
2010er
2019 „IDYLL“, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2019 „Females, Masters, Horses, Ghosts“, Brennecke Fine Art, Berlin
2019 „Hit me with the flowers“ Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Ahrenshoop
2018 „Down by the river“, Brennecke Fine Art, Berlin
2018 „ICONICA“, Galerie Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt/Main
2017 „The presence of souls of strangers and forgotten ones“, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2017 „mystery portraits“, Galerie Kunst2, Heidelberg
2017 „AURA III“, Galeria Rubin, Mailand
2016 „SYMBIOSE“, Galerie Lachenmann Art, Konstanz + Zürich
2016 „AURA II“, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2016 „AURA“, Kunstpalais Erlangen
2013 „A Painter“, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2012 „Classics“, Marstall Ahrensburg, Hamburg
2012 „Arena“, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin
2010 „Fever“, Galeria Rubin, Mailand
2000er
2005 „Lars Teichmann“, Kunstagenten Galerie, Berlin
COLLECTIONS
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Luciano Benetton Collection, Triest
Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur, Berlin
Hugo and Carla Brown, London / Den Haag
Euromobil Collection, Falzè di Piave
MKKI – Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
Kunstsammlung Erlangen, Kunstpalais